ctrlzee
@ctrlzee@lemmy.world
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Engineer, 20+ years of project management, now tangled up in change management and AI. I share the mistakes behind the lessons: what I did, what broke, and the exact Ctrl+Z moment.
Blog: www.theundostack.org · Mastodon: @ctrlzee@mastodon.social
- Comment on Why do people lie instead of just telling the truth? 9 hours ago:
Totally agree with the conflict-avoidance answer. A small reframing: making mistakes is perfectly normal. A lie is usually an attempt to skip owning one.
What makes you a mature person is:
- Acknowledge it to yourself: nobody is perfect.
- Plan the recovery: there’s a fix for everything but death. An honest apology is often most of it.
- Own the fix: you dropped the bricks, so you pick them up. Don’t wait for someone else to do it.
- Learn from it: making a mistake is fine, repeating it isn’t.
A lie turns one mistake into two, and the second one is harder to undo.